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Compllmentto General Lee.
At Lexington, in the State of Virginia,
is a college which bear* the name of the
most illustrious citisen over born in the
Old Dominion, fertile as that pleasant land
has been in heroes; nor could George
Washington himself have wished that the
college erected in his honor would have
- for President a worthier chief than the one
who quietly entered upon his duties just a
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lurviiigut ugu. iuu ucw i iuimvut ia dhu
in the prime of manhood, though already
his hair and beard are grey ; he has boen
long aooustomed to command; he is famil
iar with hardships as with fame?has slept
for months amid the woods of Virginia,
and has crossed the Rappahannock Northward
at the head of a victorious army ; he
has been proven alike by good and evil
fortune, and, whether when threatening
the Federal capital, or when surrendering
his sword to a Federal Captain, he has ever
borne himself as beseemed a man born
alike by anoestry and by nature. The descendant
of 44 Light Horse Harry" has
doffed the grey uniform for the gard of a
peaceful professor; nor can we own that
the change is a degradation, eveu for Rob
art Lee.
There is a difference in this mode of action,
but no alteration in the object, which
is simply to render the best service he can
to his native State. To that single aim he
has never once been unfaithful; and he
will still pursue it, we may test assured,
with the old high enthusiasm temperod by
a cautious brain. Throughout the war nothing
was more remarkable than Lee's personal
influence?in the manner in whioh
he impressed every o'no who approached
him. That men, with Jackson's purity aud
earnestness, or with the debonnatrc aud
graceful Tailor of Stuart, should appreciate
the illustrious qualities of their loaders, was
/In 1*7 nefnrol Knf ocon tVi/> KumKUaf enl
diers in the ranks felt, though they might
not have been able to express the moral
power whieh Lee exerted. The war was
in all oonsoieneo, sanguinary enough, bat
there woald tavo been a very carnival of
carnage, a devilish outbreak of all men's
fiercest passions had llio Southern leader
been of a different temper.
Gallantly as the Confederates fought, we
must nover forget their armies were com
posed of somewhat questionable raw material
; that the volunteers, with alt the instinct
of bravery whieh seldom deserts a
dominant class, had likewise many of the
the vices which are inevitably engendered
by the possession of arbitrary power. Accustomed
to the unchecked license of authority,
the slaveholders might perchance
have been ready enough to give the war a
character of interncoino hatred; and it was
eminently due to Robert E. Lee that the
courage and humanities of civilised warfare
were, on the wholo observed. The
gentle nature of the man never degenerated
into weakness; with a high hand he could
restrain excesses, and admirably did he exeroise
this power. There are no purer
pages in the history of the eivil war than
those whieh relate to his invasion of Maryland
and Pennsylvania, at a time when the
temper of the Southern people was sorely
triw.
Such qualities as he displayed could not
fsil, in the long run, to win the regard of
a manly and affuctiouate people ; and while
we find that he was loved like a fathor by
all those who shared his immediate perils,
ws have not yet forgotten that when the
victorious vetrans of the North were marohing
home through lliohmond, they burst
into a splendid shout of enthusiasm as thev
, rsoognired, gravely contemplating them
from a curtained window, tho familiar form
and face of Robert E. Leo.
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A Canadian printer, J. R. Dunlap, was
married in Chicago recently to the daugh
tef of a Milwaukee merchant, the young
lady ooming out on the occasion with fifteen
thousand dollars' worth of fancy dry goods
aad jewelry. She is said to be worth one
hundred thousand dollars. Of course Mr.
Dunlap will ** put on a sub," and walk
atouoa town for the rest of his life.
Df.atii o? a DiBTiNomsnitD Odd Fel- j
U)%.?John J. Davies, Grand Master of'
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of i
the State of New York, died on Wed new-:
day, 10 Brooklyn, lla wm also A the time 1
of his death Grand Scribe of the Graud
Kocampmont, and a representative of thut >
^ body iu the Grand Lodce ol the United |
E States, [fc had been a member of the Or
der a quarter of a century.
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The Lord Clod A Gun. I
What enlargement and expansion is gtr
en to scriptural figures drawn from natural (
objects by gaining a fuller knowledgo of
those objects themselves. "The Lord God
ia a sun" oonveys a striking and impressive
truth when we think of the sun only
in his obvious character as a source of light |
and heat. But what new energy is given ,
to this magnificent emblem when we learn
from astronomy that he is a grand centre
of attraction, and when we in addition take
in that sublime generalization that tho snn
is the ultimato source of every form of
power existing in the world. The wind
wafts tho oominerce of every nation over
the mighty deep, but the heat of the sun
has rarified the air and set that wind in
motion. The descending stream yields a
power that grinds your grain, turns your
spindles, works your looms, drives your
forges ; bnt li is because the sun "allu red
up the vapor from the ocean, which fell
upon the hills, and is finding its way hack
to the source from whence it came. The
expansive energy of steam propels your engines,
but the force with which it operates
is locked up in the coal, the remains of extinct
forests stored among your hills, or is
derived from the wood that abounds in
your forests, which now crown ?nd beautify
their summits. Both these primeval
and these existing forests diew their substance
from the sun ; it is the chemical
force resident in his rays which discngag
ed their carbon from the atmosphere and
laid it up as a source of power for future
use. The animal exerts a force by muscular
contraction?he draws it from the vegetable
on which he feeds, the vegetable derives
it from the sun, whose rays determine
its growth. Every time you lift your arm,
every time you take a step, you arc drawing
on tho power the sun has given you.
When you step into the railway-carriage
it is the sun power that hurries you along.
When a gentle breeze fans your languid
check, and when tho resistless tornado lev
018 ok1c3 id its fury, tDey are the servants
of the sun. What an emblem of Him in
whom we live and move and have our being.?I
*ro fesfor.
A Strange Story
In 1847, a young physician, who had
just graduated at the Missouri State Uui
versity, and returned to his home in Illinois
to praetico his profession, led to the
altar a lady who had won his love. Thd
young physician, with that professional
ardor which burns so brightly in the heart
of all students, had on his return home
procured a " subjeot" or cadayer for dissection,
by desecrati ng the village grave
yard. By some means this tact became
known, and a warrant was issued for his
arrest and placed in the hands of au officer
to serve, which he did in a lew ino
ments after the marriage supper was performed.
The crime being a felony, the
bridegroom's position may readily be im
agineu to have been extremely unenviable,
and the prospects of a prison oell being
anything but agrceble, ho determined to
make his cscapo. The officer having grautcd
him the privilege of saying a few
words in private to hi* bride, he retired
with her to a room, bade her farewell,
jumped from the window nnl escaped
lie was pursued for many days, but finally
mauoged to elude his pursuer*, and settled
in Missouri. A year later ho wandered
into New Mexioo, and from thence, in j
tho course of a few years, he found hit
way into California. During his wanderings
he had failed to corrcspoud with
his wife, and she, believing him dead,
married again. After a time he learned
this fact, but determined to remain dead 1
to her, and it was not until a few months I
ago he altered his determination. Hap- !
pening to pick up a newspaper published |
la one of the Western cities, he read an '
account of tho death of the husband of hi*
wife, and knowing her to bo free, he wrote
to her, stating that he " he still lived,"
and cherished her mornory as green as
when lie kissed her lips in parting nine 1
teen years ago. He told her he was still
free, and asked her to come and enjoy with
him the fortue ho had accumulated. Tho
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who wiuow reocivea me letter, and j
while she read, the early lore returned, and
she determined to join him. Disposing of
hor property, she, with a daughter twelve
years of age, took passage for California,
and were met on the wharf by the old hus- i
band, who conducted them to the Cosmo- ,
poll tan Hotel, where they remained till a
lioem>e was procured and a minister remarried
the parties; after which they pro
oceded to tho house that had bcon prepared
lor them, and where they, ou Thursday
evening, entertained quito a nttmbor of1
friends. Truly, tho incidents ot real life !
arc more Btartliug and romantic than the j
wildest fancies of the romancer.?<S'o? .
Franci*(X> Culijominn.
In the lato eivil war, 220 battles wore 1
fought. In Virginia, 80; Tennessee, 87 ;
Missouri, 37 ; Georgia, 12 ; South Carolina,
16; Nortn Carolina, 11; Alabama, 7 ; Florida,
6; Kentucky, 14 ; tho Indian Territory
ami New Mexico, one each. There were
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Bale of Slaves Before (he War.
The following case, says the Macon
(Georgia) Messenger, which came off at
the April term ol Sumter Court, before his
Honor, Alex. II. Speer, will be road with
unusual interest. The points decided arc
such as to affect thousands of our citixens
and ffivtW. on tlint awnnnk n rrnii.!nnn?? ?
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this decision beyond that which usually attaches
to a decision of the circuit courts.
We under.stand that the case will go up to
the Supreme Court.
James W. Armstrong vs. Columbus W.
(land. Complaint on notes for value of
three negroes, sold in 1800, Plea, failure
of consideration, and breach of covenant,
etc.
In Sumter Superior Court, April term,
1866. Colonel .Joseph Armstrong and General
'Iowell Cobb, representing the plaintiff
Messrs. Hawkins and McKay for defendants.
The facts aro briefly these : Armstrong,
plaintiff, on the 9th of January, 1860, sold
three negroes to defendants, for a given
sum, and took their r.otes for the same, and
now sues upon these uotes. Plaintiff warranted
titles, that they were slaves for life.
The defendants plead failure ot consideration
and brcnch of covenant of warranty,
by the abolition of slavery.
The court held tie covenant only warranted
the title and status of the slaves, as
the law then stood, and that the act of the
government abolishing slavery, repealed
the covenant. The plaintiff was, therefore,
entitled to recover tho notes sued u|>on.
As Arkansas Father's Advice to
his Son.?Bob, you arc about leaving
home for strange parts. You are going to
throw me out of the game and go it alone.
The odds are agin you, Bob?remember
that industry and rx?r.i?r??ri?iMu? u.n ?
uiuuniHneu. Thin course ot events transpired
for several nights, when each resolv
ed in his own mind to stand guard, and
solve the mystery. Tlicy did so; when, on
the following night, they met each other
half way between their respective shocks
with their arius full. Upon ground hallowed
by suoh association as this was the
Totnplo of Solomon orcoted?so spaciout
and magnificent, the wonder and admiration
of the world ! Alas ! in these days,
how many would sooner steal their broth
or'n whole shook, than add to it a single
sheaf.
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winning cards, as they arc the "bowers "
Book laming, and all tliut sort of thing,
will do to fill up with, like small trumps,
and you must have the bowers to back
them, or they aint worth chucks. If luck
in agin you pretty strong, don't cave and
look like a sick chicken on a rainy day j
hut hold up your head and uiukc all believe
you are flush ol trumps ; tin y dont
play so hard agin you. I've lived and
traveled around some, Bob, and I've found
out thut as soon as some folks thought ycu
held a weak hand, they'd all buck ugiuyou
strong. So, when you arc sorter weak,
keep on a bold front, but play eautious ;
be satisfied with a p'int. Many's the hand
I've seen 'cm euotcd because they played
for too much. Keep your eyes well skinned,
Bob; dont let 'cm nig you; recollect
the game lays as muoh with the head as
with the hands. Be temperate?never get
drunk ; for then, no matter how you play
it, both bowers and the ace won't save vouj
for there's surtin to bo a "uiissdeiif' or
something wrong. And another thing,
Bob, (this was spoken in a low tone) don't
go too much ou women ; queens is kinder
poor cards ; the uioro you have of 'cm the
worse for you ; you might have three and
nary a trump. 1 don't say discard 'em all;
it you get hold of one that is a trump, it's
all good, and there's sartin to be one out of
four. And above all, Bob, be honest ;
never take a man's trick wot ilon't I.
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to you, nor "tdip" cards or "nig," for then
you can't look your man in the face, and
when that's the ease, there's no fuii in the
game ; it's a regular "cut-throat." tio now,
liob, farewell; remember wot I toll you,
and you will bo sure to win ; and il you
don't, it sarves you right it'you get "akunk
cd."
A I>?UtjiiTruL Lkgknd.?There is a
charming tradition connected with the site
on which the temple of 8oloraon was erect
cd. It is said to have been occupied in
common by two brothers, one whom had u
family ; the other hud none. Ou this spot
was sown a field ot wheat. On the evening
succeeding the hnrvest the wheat having
been gathered in separate shocks, the elder
brother said to his wife, "My younger brother
is unable to bear the burden and heat
of the day ; I will arise, take of my shocks
and pluuo them with li s without his know!
edge " The younger brother bcirg actu
uted by the same benevolent motives, said
within liunsell, "My elder brother has a
family, I have none ; I will contribute to
their support; 1 will arise, tako my shocks
and place them with bis, without his
knowledge." Judge of their mutual astouisliwcut
when, on the following morning,
they found their respective shocks un
Tell Your Blotfeier^
I wonder how many girls tell their
mother everything? Not those "young
ladies" who going to and from school, smile,
bow and exchange notes and cartes de visile
with young men who make fun of you and
your pictures, speaking in a way that would
wake your cheeks burn with shame if you
h<ard it. All this, most incredulous and
romantic young ladies, they will do, although
they gaze nt your fresh young face
admiringly, and send or give you charming
verses and boqncts. No matter what"othor
girls do," don't you do it. School girl
ilirtations may end disastrously, as many a
foolish wretched young girl could tell you.
Your yearning for some one to love is a
irreat uee?l of pverr /???? ti??
o . j Tfvwauu o uv.ai?. A/Ub
there ia time fur everything. Don't let
the bloom and freshness of yonr heart be
brushed off in silly flirtations. Render
yourselves truly intelligent. And above
all, tell your mother everything. "Fun,"
in your dictionary would be indisorotion in
hers. It would do no harm to look and
see. Never be ashamed to tell her, who
should be your best friend and confident,
all you think and feci. It is very strange,
that so many young girls will tell every
person before "mother" that which is most
important that she should know. It is
very sad that in different persons should
IchbV Aiore about her own fair young daughtiW
than she herself. t
Tiie Charm or Life.?There are a
thousand things in this world to afflict and
sadden?but, oh! how muny that are
beautiful and good. The world teems with
beauty?wi<h objects that gladden the eye
and warm the heart. We might be happy
it wc would. There art ills that we cannot
escape?the approach of disease and death,
ot luislbrtuues, the sundering of the earth!y
ties, and the cankerworm ot grief?bat
the vust majority of evils that beset us
might be avoided. The curse of intemperance,
interwoven as it is with all the ligaments
of society, is oug which never strikes
Lut to destroy. There is not one bright
page up< n the record of its progress?no
thing to shield it from tho heaiticst exe
cration of the huniau race. It should not
exist?it must not Do away with all this
?let wars come to an end, and let friendship,
charity, love, purity and kindness
mark the intercourse between man and
mam; Wo arc too selfish, as if the world
was made for us alone. How mnch happier
w oaid we be, were we to labor more
earnestly to promote each other's good?
God has blessed us with a home that is
not dark. There is sunshine everywhere?
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mi me say, upon me earth?tberc would be
in mo?t hearts if we would look around us.
The storm dies away, and a bright sun
shines out. Summer drops her tinted curtnins
upon the earth, which is very beau
titul, when autumn breathes her chanting
, breath upon it?God reigns in heaven.
Murmur not at a being so good, and we can
live happier than we do.
Wantii>.?Tho diameter of the "circle
of fashion/'
A square foot from "a deal of trouble."
"Feathers" from the wings of love.
The "cord" that binds two hearts together.
A relic from tho "slirino of friendship."
Bubbles from the "springs of joy."
[ A gem from the "crown of virtue."
The weapou with which people "kill
tune."
To know if "spirits" of wine and ghosts
| arc akin.
A atone from the "pinnacle" of glory.
To know tho length of a plumb-line that
will souud the "depths of knowledge."
To know the rate of the tide of the "flow
, of reason."
To know if any ono intends publishing
the "music of the spheres ' and whether
tho "march of intellect" is in slow or quick
tiuio.
And how to soothe a 'murmuringstream/
1 or to quiet a "babbling brook."
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Successful Editors.?An English
writer says : " A good editor, a competent
i ! newspaper conductor, is liko a general or
u poet, corn, not made. Exercise and %x'
pcrieuoe give facility, but the qualification
i is innate, or it is never manifested. On
the Jyondon daily paper* all the great his
torians, novelists, poet.., essayists, and the
i writers of travels, have been tried, and
nearly every one has failed. 'I can.' said
the late editor of the London Tiroes, 'find
any ntimber of men of genius to write for
' me, but very seldom ono man of oommon
- sense.' Nearly all successful editors are
of this description. A good editor seldom
I writes much for his paper; ho roads, judges,
i selects, dictates, alters, and combines, and
' to do all this well he has but little time for
, composition. To write for a paper is one
thing?to edit a paper another."
1 A duo fervor makes a plain disoourse
more touching than ono exquisitely composed
and coldly delivored, as a blunt iron,
when red hot, will pierce deeper into a
1 piece of wood than a much sharper ouc that
t cold.
A writer in * Georgia paper mtrodaod
the American Eagle, whieh for yeaa be
been a comparative stranger in those parte,
in thie style, preliminary to the Fourth of
July: _
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" The American Eagle is looking at os.
His tail feathers have been plucked out,
but still he is ou the roost Miss Columbia
is also standing with her flagstaff and flag
on to it, but she looks a little passee .
Fourth of July comes bat once a year, but
it's dull. We must fix up the Eagle, get
the Goddess a new set of tcoth and a waterfall,
and have Fourth of July got op regardless
of expense. We must give all
the Mormon women a husband a pieoo,
marry the anxious sohoolmartns that oouse
down South to teach the darkies, put the
niggers at work, build a horse railroad from
New York to tho City of Mexico, dam up
the Gulf Stream, lick England, (Old and
New,) annex Cuba, and we will bo again a
great and glorious country."
An Odorous Comparison.?The tow)
crablc Jvcalie Coombs, of Kentucky, thus
alludes in a public speech of tho proposition
for soeial equality of whites and negroes
:
11 Other candidates may do as they
please, but so far as I am concerned I will
do nothing to weaken or divide those opposed
to the moestrus and unnatural doctrine
rampant at Washington, of negro
soeial and political equality. God's cutno
has stamped the negro with an inefaeeable
black skin and a wholly head ; and in His
provide nee, has kept him for six thousand
years in close proximity toother noes, but
always subordinate?in mind and body, as
well as in civilization and reftnomont; and
yet we have the spectacle now before ma of
a deliberate oonspiracy in the North to
bring down one favored noe to the negro
level, in violation to God's law, and all
written history. The idea of elevating the
ordorous sons of Africa to the Caucasian
status, is about as absurd aa farvinr In rv?r?
# ? j --o ? r?
tunic dog fennel by tying it up in iboquet
with pinks and rosea."
The Will or x duvskaaj).?! die a
wretched tinner; and I laare to the world
a worthless reputation, a wicked tTmTJ*
and a inooiorj that is onlj fit to periab.
I leave to my parents sorrow and bitterness
of sool all the days of their lives.
I leave to my brothora and sisters shame
and grief, and reproach of their acquaintances.
I leave to mv wife a widowed and broken
heart, and a life of loooly struggling with
want and suffering.
I leave my children a tainted name, a
ruined position, a pitiful ignoranoe, and
' the mortifying recollection of a father who,
by his life, disgraoed humanity, and at his
premature death joined the great company
of those who are never to enter the kingdom
of God.
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Early Imprmstohb or Pimr.-Knowledge,
planted by the hand of affection in
the hallowed sanetnary of home, is wont to
take deeper root than " seed sown by the
way side." Parents who writs, with their
own pencils, lines of heaven upon the fresh
tables of the children's hearts?who trust
not to the hands of hirelings their first,
holiest, most indelablo impressions?will
usually find less than others to blot oat
when the scroll is finished, and to mown
for when they read it in eternity.
3?lf-Exam i nation? ,?
Let no soft slumber close mine eyes,
Ere 1 have recollected thrioe,
The train of actions through the day.
When have my feet marked out their way ?
What have I learnt wharo'es I've beau,
From all I've heard, from all I've seen?
What know I more trials worth the knowing
What have I done that's worth the doing?
What have I sought that I should shun ?
What duties have I left undone ? w
Ur into what new follies run ? 0
These sclt ioquirios aro the road -ti
That leads to virtue and to God.
[From the Greek of Pythagoras. *
A German prince was oooe visiting the
arsenal of Tonlon, and was told that, in
compliment to his rank, ha might set free
one of the galley slaves. Anxious to nso
the privilege well, he spoke to many of
them, and ssked the cause of their punishment.
All deolared it to be unjust, till he
came to one who confessed bis sin. *n<i A*.
plored it, ?yiog " I acknowledge I dose
rre to be broken on the wheel." The
prince exclaimed?"Thi* it the on I
with to be releaaed."
How many, adorned with all the fwrithv
of intelleot, hare (tumbled on the unUahuo
into life, and have made a wrong choice on
the very thing wbieh wan to determine
their eoone forever. Thie it among the
reason*, and perhapa the principle owe,
why the wise and the happj are two dintinct
claeeea of tMn.